. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . The Boys First Book. INDIANA had been admitted into the Union as a State,and the tide of immigration setting into the new Statewas full and far spreading. But neighbors were not un-comfortably near the Lincolns in their new home. Pick-ing up their property left in charge of one of the scatteredsettlers by Thomas Lincoln on his first visit, the forlornfamily pushed on into the wilderness, where on a grassyknoll in the heart of the untrodden forest, they fixedupon the site of their future dwelling-place. A slight hunters camp was all that
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . The Boys First Book. INDIANA had been admitted into the Union as a State,and the tide of immigration setting into the new Statewas full and far spreading. But neighbors were not un-comfortably near the Lincolns in their new home. Pick-ing up their property left in charge of one of the scatteredsettlers by Thomas Lincoln on his first visit, the forlornfamily pushed on into the wilderness, where on a grassyknoll in the heart of the untrodden forest, they fixedupon the site of their future dwelling-place. A slight hunters camp was all that could be built toshelter the new settlers during their first winter in thewoods of Southern Indiana. This was what was some-times called a half-faced camp, open on one side and thatthe lower. Four uprights, forked at the top, formed thecorner-posts, the rear being higher than the front. Onthese corner-poles were laid the cross-pieces needed toform the edges of the roof, and across these were thesloping rafters, covered with split shakes or thin slabs. THE HOME IN INDIANA. 13 from the trees felled by the hardy backwoodsman and hisboy. Poles set up against the outer framework and chinked in with chips and clay, made a shelter fromthe blasts that howled around. The open front was par-tially screened with pelts, as the half-dressed skins ofwild animals were called. A fireplace of sticks and clay,with a chimney of the same materials, occupied one cor-ner of the hut. Here the future President of the repub-lic spent his first winter in the new State of Indiana. Let us consider the lad and some of the circumstancesof the time. He was now in his eighth year, tall, ungain-ly, fast-growing, long-legged, and clad in the garb of thefrontier. Cotton and linen goods were scarce and costlyin those primitive days and in that far-off wore a shirt of linsey-woolsey, a fabric, home-spun of mixed cotton and wool, and dyed, if at all, withcolors obtained from the roots and barks o
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